Opening of "Tir Saile" exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre, 4th of June 2015.This is the first exhibition of prints produced by an artist in the Ballina Art Centre's own Print Studio, the exhibition was opened by Michelle Mulherin T.D.

The opening of "Mayo Landscapes 2013" at Ballina Library on the 5th. July

At the the opening of "Mayo Landscapes 2012" Photos: Kathy Lyons Photographer

Photo Kathy Lyons

Opening of the group exhibition of life drawing studies "Presence" in the O'Dwyer Arts Centre, 2012Photos: Kathy Lyons Photographer

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."George Bernard Shaw

Val McLoughlin,Painter and Printer

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I studied art at the Crawford School of Art, Cork, as it then was and housed in the Crawford Art Gallery a very suitable venue for a small art school in 1971. I had arrived in a place that I would enjoy and learn what I wanted to learn. It also was the place where I made lifelong friends and colleagues. I am a interested in landscape painting working in oils, acrylics, watercolours and mixed media I also practice portraiture and life drawing. I print using Lino cuts and Woodcuts.I am interested in the emotional effects of colour and the abstract elements of a subject when painting. I work as fluidly as possible to capture this sense of movement, time and colour changing when painting. The painters t have influenced me are, Francisco Goya, Jose Guerrero,Henri Matisse, Tony O'Malley, William Crozier, David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmax, Otto Dix and the German Expressionist printers among others.